Discovery BoxJudges 9:48 
Context9:48 He and all his men 1 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 2 took an ax 3 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 4 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 5
Judges 13:7
Context13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 6 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 7 For the child will be dedicated 8 to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
Judges 14:16
Context14:16 So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder 9 and said, “You must 10 hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men 11 a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” 12
Judges 18:14
Context18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish 13 said to their kinsmen, 14 “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”
1 tn Heb “his people.”
2 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
3 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
4 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
5 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
6 tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
7 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
8 tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”
9 tn Heb “on him.”
10 tn Heb “only”; or “simply.”
11 tn Heb “the sons of my people.”
12 tn Heb “Should I tell you?”
13 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”
14 tn Heb “brothers.”
